PuTTY wish subsystem-publickey

summary: Support for public key distribution subsystem `publickey'class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not.

VanDyke are pushing an
implementation-independent subsystem publickey
(previously publickey@vandyke.com)
for the distribution of public keys over SSH-2 connections. See
RFC 4819
(formerly draft-ietf-secsh-publickey-subsystem).

We get quite a lot of mail from people having trouble setting up PK on
their server. Perhaps we should have some form of support for this, on
general principles of encouraging public-key auth. Need to think about
what form it would take.

VanDyke have implementations (their own software, and a
patch for OpenSSH).
I don't know whether anyone else does.